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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939).
About the movie:
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
Huntley Ritter
performed the Nationals scene with a sprained ankle.
b.
The filming of the big warehouse scene caused something of a panic in Baltimore. The fire was visible from I-95 and the Baltimore Beltway, so Good Samaritans kept calling the fire department to report it. So many people called that the fire department ended up calling radio stations to confess that the scene was being filmed and to request that people stop tying up the emergency lines.
c.
Sixth and final time
Peter Ustinov
played
Agatha Christie
s Hercule Poirot.
d.
James Cagney
s character is introduced while the soundtrack is playing the song "Im Forever Blowing Bubbles" - the same song that is playing at the end of his star-making film,
The Public Enemy
(made eight years earlier and also set in the 1920s), when his corpse is delivered to his familys home.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
The world premiere was a formal affair held at the Warner Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. on Oct. 23, 1939. Attendees included
Harry M. Warner
,
Hal B. Wallis
,
Darryl F. Zanuck
,
Louis B. Mayer
,
Joseph Breen
,
Walter Wanger
and
Mark Hellinger
.
b.
Tim Burton
s directorial debut.
c.
The downtown area outdoor shots were filmed along a Pomona, California street where a number of antique and gift shops are located. The community decided not to redecorate after filming ended, so the surreal paint scheme and some of the signage can still be seen as it appears in the movie.
d.
Al Pacino
and
Jack Nicholson
turned down the role of Noodles.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
The photo of Edwards when K is erasing all his data records is an old high school photo of
Will Smith
.
b.
Coast Guard cutter is the USCGC Dauntless (WMEC 624). She used to deploy out of Florida, but now is home ported in Galveston, Texas.
c.
LL Cool J
was originally set to play
Idris Elba
s part.
d.
Eddie Bartlett refers a couple of times to a "gilpin". This is a slang term for a stupid or gullible person, mostly known from the 1930s rather than 1919 when Eddie first uses it in the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
The night of the premiere, producer
Mark Hellinger
received a telegram to help calm his nerves. The telegram read: From all the wonderful things I hear of
The Roaring Twenties
. I dont need to wish you good luck. Hope you dont suffer too much.
Joan Crawford
.
b.
The Special Jet Propelled Torpedo is actually a aerial torpedo (it was delivered by aircraft and by torpedo boats) that had its propellers and rudders removed.
c.
The shiny card with the Alien Symbols on it that Michael McKeans character finds in the Coneheads trailer is a diagram showing the escape-routes out of a Conehead Craft in the event of an emergency landing.
d.
According to the book Bill Collins presents The Golden Years of Hollywood by
Bill Collins
, "Some filming was done in America. The RAF Harvard trainer and the Hudson bomber were made in the United States for British contracts, so it was possible to get some fine footage at Lockheeds Burbank facility. As there were not Mk.1A Spitfires or German BF-109Es in America, Twentieth Century-Fox had one of each constructed at the studio in Los Angeles. In England,
Ronald Neame
and his team worked at the RAFs No. 602 Squadron (City of Glasgow) to capture authentic shots of take-offs, aerial formations and so forth . . . the marvelous five-minute sequence at Dunkirk was actually achieved on the Californian coast at a cost of $100,000."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
This was the first film for production company Northshore Investments Ltd.
b.
In the library scene, as an addition, there is a part where books are stacked, cover to cover, one on top of another. This is discovered with Ray calling it "symmetrical book stacking." The whole scene was thought up by director
Ivan Reitman
that very day as he was driving to the set.
c.
Director
Jonathan Demme
wanted people not familiar with AIDS issues to see his film. He felt
Bruce Springsteen
would bring an audience that would not ordinarily see a movie about a gay man dying of AIDS. The movie and the song, "The Streets of Philadelphia", did a great deal to increase AIDS awareness and take some of the stigma off the disease.
d.
The final line of the movie spoken by the character, Panama Smith (
Gladys George
) has been ranked by AFI and others as the #1 last line of a gangster movie. In response to a police officers query, "What was his business", Panama answers as she holds Eddie (
James Cagney
) on the stairs of the church, "He used to be a big shot."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Roaring Twenties (1939)?
a.
The Tri-City Independent/Fan Film Festival, in the Washington state, showed the film in October 17th, 2009
b.
Oas Central Power Battery, as seen in the film, resembles the Green Lantern Corps symbol to make more evident the link between the Battery and the Lanterns. Also, over the circle of the Battery was added the Green Lantern oath, in Interlac (a fictional language used in the DC Comics).
c.
The New York Times cast list includes
Max Wagner
playing "Lefty," but the only Lefty in the cast was played by
Abner Biberman
, although he is credited onscreen only as "Henchman." Wagner may not have been in the film.
d.
Ursula Andress
was once touted to play Xaviera Hollander in this movie.
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